The Debt
What the World's Religions Owe Zoroastrianism — Calculated, Itemized, and Presented Without Apology This is the article no one has written. Not because the facts are disputed — they are documented in the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the work of scholars from Mary Boyce to R.C.
What this resource contributes
What the World's Religions Owe Zoroastrianism — Calculated, Itemized, and Presented Without Apology This is the article no one has written. Not because the facts are disputed — they are documented in the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the work of scholars from Mary Boyce to R.C. Zaehner to the academic paper by Lovern and Beckmann that explicitly uses the word "colonization." No one has written this article because no one has been willing to state the conclusion that the evidence demands. So here it is. The world's religions owe Zoroastrianism a debt so vast it cannot be calculated — only described. The Inventory The following concepts are documented by mainstream scholarship as having Zoroastrian origin or significant Zoroastrian influence.
Topics and source signals
Primary sources detected
Gathas · Avesta · Dead Sea Scrolls · Bundahishn
Scholars detected
Mary Boyce · R.C. Zaehner